I had a phone conversation earlier today with a lady that has been working pretty hard to make up for income lost when her primary business encountered the recession. What’s she doing to create income? She’s doing a lot of what I do. She’s trading good solid income producing information for a few of your dollars. Well you gotta know that got my attention. Heck, that means we might be related somehow.
Anyway, she mentioned that several web sites had plagiarized her work. Well, not actually plagiarized. Down here where I’m from we call it stealing. Us southern boys never shoot at the perpetrator running away from the scene. Instead, we run ‘em down in our pickup truck and get it on! So I decided to to run this sucker down.
I started doing a little a little snooping to see what may be behind this thievery. I visited the web site the lady mentioned and lo and behold there is absolutely no contact information; no name, no address, no phone number – nothing except gimme your money. There’s a link to pay for a manual.
Okay, back on track here. Now I figure I’m a little smarter than this guy and went to check out who owned the site. Well, well, well. This guy knows a little bit about this stuff. The site is registered by proxy which means its true owner is hidden behind the registrars name. Just to let you know how often that takes place, I own about 700 web site names and only one is registered by proxy! Okay, I ain’t through yet. Let’s check out his paypal account. I know you’d never think this but it’s a generic name company. There’s probably only 108,000 companies hiding behind the same generic name.
Why am I telling you this? Because I know things are mighty rough for a lot of people. Some people are grasping at straws. Don’t let some thief take what little you do have. If there is no contact information for a product or service you are looking at on the net, then you’re probably looking at a scam. Be leary of blind ads on Craigslist too. Blind ads have a definate place and are really good for some uses but if you are not made aware of who you are dealing with in one or two e-mails you need to be very careful.
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